The smoke prevention and pure air promotion enterprise : placed upon an entirely new footing, shewing how all steam users may make a profit for themselves, and greatly increase the health of the community, by adopting a machine that takes the maximum of heat without smoke out of every kind of fuel : with a supplement, entitled:- "some aspects of the great question of smoke prevention" / The Air Burning Company, Limited.

The Air Burning Company, Limited

Date:: [1880]

Credit: The smoke prevention and pure air promotion enterprise : placed upon an entirely new footing, shewing how all steam users may make a profit for themselves, and greatly increase the health of the community, by adopting a machine that takes the maximum of heat without smoke out of every kind of fuel : with a supplement, entitled:- "some aspects of the great question of smoke prevention" / The Air Burning Company, Limited. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Io of the United Kingdom be as free from smoke as London, and the Clyde as free from smoke as the Thames. Let the steamers on the Clyde like the steamers on the Thames, carry on their traffic without either blurring the scenery or poisoning the air. Hlow the Smoke Producer may make a profit by obeying this Summary and Severe New Law. i would be very unfair on our part towards the smoke producers to get a law made to punish them, summarily and severely, without letting them know how they can at the least possible cost, avoid the offence and escape the punishment. We are prepared not only to do this, but also to shew them how, by a certain investment, they can obey the law and make a good profit for themselves by doing so. We are prepared to give them the full benefit of our twenty years experience, in carefully and scientifically studying how this can be done. Instead of leaving them and their managers to worry themselves and all around them, in the wearisome and expen- sive task of finding out which machine out of forty or fifty competitors, is the best, we at once bring before them the champion of the lot, and all that they have to do is to give their orders. If the reader will kindly go with us to a large mill at the east-end he will have an opportunity of hearing all about the champion machine. There is the mill, and the noise you hear is the rattle of hundreds of looms converting yarn into cloth with surprising rapidity. You may watch the tall chimney stalk for hours, but you will see no smoke. Let us go along to the boiler shed and see Sandie, the fireman, whose business is to supply these powerful engines with any quantity of steam without producing any smoke. “Well, Sandie, I see you are pegging away as usual, with plenty of steam and no nuisance.”

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